The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 15 individuals who had lured and sexually exploited children via the Internet, the Office announced Wednesday on its Facebook page.

Montenegro has on Thursday officially launched the application process for its Citizens by Investment Program, otherwise known as the Golden Visa scheme, which offers rich foreigners and their families citizenship in return for investments worth hundreds of thousands of euros.

The Vatican has appointed one of Italy’s top anti-mafia prosecutors to head its criminal tribunal, just days after raids were carried out in the Holy See over alleged financial wrongdoing.

The retirement of outdated Kenyan banknotes has revealed tens of millions of dollars that had likely been earned via criminal activity, the Central Bank of Kenya announced on Wednesday.

European Union finance ministers will be considering at a meeting next week whether they should set up a supervisor who would be responsible for money laundering cases, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

Four cartels are battling it out for the lucrative US$1.5 billion dollar avocado trade in western Mexico, the office of a state attorney general has revealed.

Personal information of up to 60 million credit card holders of the Russia’s biggest bank ended up for sale on the online black market, the Kommersant newspaper reported Thursday, quoting the DeviceLock cybersecurity company, which first noticed the internet add.

Iranian sentenced President Hassan Rouhani's younger brother to five years in prison for corruption and bribery, the New York Timesreported Tuesday. In a separate case, a court sentenced one person to death and sent three others to jail for spying for the US and the UK.

Guatemala has destroyed nearly 1.5 million coca plans worth US$800 in an attempt to undermine the country’s flourishing cocaine industry, President Jimmy Morales told reporters on Monday, according to Reuters.

Honduras’ president blasted claims he was the intended recipient of a bribe from notorious drug trafficker Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman as “less serious than Alice in Wonderland.”